Portal:Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest Portal Scattered patches of subalpine fir grow below glaciers and permanent snowfields on the south slope of Mount Rainier in the Cascades ecoregion The Cascadia bioregion The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho, and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Some broader conceptions reach north into Alaska and Yukon, south into northern California, and east into western Montana. Other conceptions may be limited to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains. The Northwest Coast is the coastal region of the Pacific Northwest, and the Northwest Plateau (also commonly known as "the Interior" in British Columbia), is the inland region. The term "Pacific Northwest" should not be confused with the Northwest Territory (also known as the Great Northwest, a historical term in the United States) or the Northwest Territories of Canada. The region is sometimes referred to as Cascadia, which, depending on the borders, may or may not be the same thing as the Pacific Northwest. The region's largest metropolitan areas are Greater Seattle, Washington, with 4 million people; Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, with 2.84 million people; and Greater Portland, Oregon, with 2.5 million people. The culture of the Pacific Northwest is influenced by the Canada–United States border, which the United States and the United Kingdom established at a time when the region's inhabitants were composed mostly of indigenous peoples. Two sections of the border—one along the 49th parallel south of British Columbia and one between the Alaska Panhandle and northern British Columbia—have left a great impact on the region. According to Canadian historian Ken Coates, the border has not merely influenced the Pacific Northwest—rather, "the region's history and character have been determined by the boundary". (Full article...) Selected article - The southbound portal at Westlake station The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (DSTT), also referred to as the Metro Bus Tunnel, is a 1.3-mile-long (2.1 km) pair of public transit tunnels in Seattle, Washington, United States. The double-track tunnel and its four stations serve Link light rail trains on the 1 Line as it travels through Downtown Seattle. It runs west under Pine Street from 9th Avenue to 3rd Avenue, and south under 3rd Avenue to South Jackson Street. 1 Line trains continue north from the tunnel to Northgate station and south through the Rainier Valley past Seattle–Tacoma International Airport to Angle Lake station as part of Sound Transit's light rail network. The DSTT was used only by buses from its opening in 1990 until 2005, and shared by buses and light rail from 2009 until 2019. Bus routes from King County Metro and Sound Transit Express left the tunnel north via Interstate 5, south via the SODO Busway, or east via Interstate 90. It was owned by King County Metro and shared with Sound Transit through a joint-operating agreement signed in 2002; Sound Transit assumed full ownership in 2022. The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel was one of two tunnels in the United States shared by buses and trains, the other being the Mount Washington Transit Tunnel in Pittsburgh, and was the only one in the United States with shared stations. (Full article...) List of selected articles Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast Geology of the Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest Trail Pacific Northwest canoes Hip hop music in the Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest Corridor Pacific Northwest College of Art Pacific Northwest tree octopus Seattle Portland, Oregon Eugene, Oregon Pacific Northwest Ballet Columbia River Bonneville Power Administration The Gorge Amphitheatre Nutrient cycling in the Columbia River Basin Puget Sound Vancouver Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau Vancouver Island Strait of Georgia Washington (state) Idaho Oregon Nez Perce Nez Perce National Historical Park Salish Sea Umpqua River Surrey, British Columbia Boise, Idaho San Juan Islands BoltBus Clark County, Washington Multnomah County, Oregon 2019 Pacific Northwest measles outbreak Cascades (ecoregion) Mount St. Helens Pacific Northwest lumber strike Pacific Northwest oyster industry 1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane Metro Vancouver Regional District Cascade Range Portland metropolitan area Coast Mountains Mount Rainier Fraser River Squamish people Crater Lake National Park Mount Hood National Forest Willamette National Forest Willamette River 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic Soundgarden Idaho Panhandle Washington State Ferries Clayoquot Sound Mount Waddington 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens Arlington, Washington Edmonds station (Washington) Pearl Jam Interstate 82 Seattle Center Monorail Hillsboro, Oregon Rogue River (Oregon) Three Sisters (Oregon) Newberry Volcano MAX Orange Line Tryon Creek Camas pocket gopher Columbia Slough Hands Across Hawthorne List of governors of Washington List of bridges in Seattle List of counties in Washington Level Mountain Tumbler Ridge Olympic Mountains Port Townsend, Washington The Volcano (British Columbia) Dawson Creek 2007–2008 Nazko earthquakes List of Vancouver SkyTrain stations List of municipalities in British Columbia North Cascades National Park Gulf Islands National Park Reserve Boeing Microsoft Costco Starbucks Alaska Airlines Nordstrom Amazon (company) T-Mobile US Portland International Airport Seattle–Tacoma International Airport Vancouver International Airport Nike, Inc. Reser's Fine Foods Pendleton Round-Up Cedar Mill, Oregon Tacoma, Washington Olympia, Washington Sleater-Kinney Grunge Idaho Falls, Idaho Willamette Falls Willamette Valley Columbia River Gorge Spokane, Washington Interstate 90 in Washington Eastern Oregon Palouse Coeur d'Alene, Idaho British Columbia Victoria, British Columbia Oregon boundary dispute Pacific Crest Trail Olympic Sculpture Park Portland Trail Blazers Seattle SuperSonics Seattle Seahawks 1969 Seattle Pilots season Seattle-Tacoma Box Company Keep Portland Weird Sub Pop Muzak History of Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh longshoremen, 1863–1963 Leaky condo crisis University of British Columbia University of Oregon University of Washington University of Idaho Idaho State University Oregon State University Portland State University Washington State University Mount Hood Willamette Shore Trolley MAX Light Rail Gladstone, Oregon Wilsonville, Oregon Upper Klamath Lake Mount Thielsen List of premiers of British Columbia Interstate 405 (Oregon) Pacific Northwest '73–'74: The Complete Recordings Pacific Northwest Wrestling Pacific Northwest English November 2021 Pacific Northwest floods COVID-19 pandemic in Washington (state) COVID-19 pandemic in Oregon COVID-19 pandemic in Idaho COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia Whidbey Island Mercer Island, Washington Architecture of Seattle Selected biography - Dosanjh in 2011 Ujjal Dev Dosanjh, PC KC (/ˈuːdʒəl doʊˈsɑːndʒ/; Punjabi: ਉੱਜਲ ਦੇਵ ਦੁਸਾਂਝ; born September 9, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 33rd premier of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001 and as a Liberal Party of Canada member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. He was minister of health from 2004 until 2006, when the party lost government. He then served in the Official Opposition from January 2006 until 2011. Dosanjh was one of four visible minorities to serve in Paul Martin's Ministry. Prior to being involved in federal politics, he spent ten years in provincial politics. He was elected in the Vancouver-Kensington riding in 1991 as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP) and re-elected there in 1996. He served as the Attorney General of British Columbia from August 1995 to February 2000. When the leader of his party resigned in 1999, Dosanjh put himself forward as a candidate and won the leadership vote. With the win he became Canada's first Indo-Canadian provincial leader. He served as the 33rd Premier of British Columbia until June 2001 when he lost the province's general election. He was the last NDP premier of the province until John Horgan was elevated to the position in 2017. (Full article...) List of selected biographies Eric Brewer (ice hockey) Joe Sakic Jimi Hendrix Jay Inslee Dixy Lee Ray Gary Locke Christine Gregoire Phil Knight John Kitzhaber Ted Kulongoski Barbara Roberts Neil Goldschmidt Kate Brown Brad Little Larry Craig Dirk Kempthorne Frank Steunenberg John Horgan Christy Clark Gordon Campbell Justin Trudeau Ken Kesey Bing Crosby Frances Farmer Eddie Vedder Kurt Cobain Chris Cornell Chief Seattle Chief Joseph Kenneth Callahan Bill Gates Carol Channing Gary Larson Alfred H. Corbett Beatrice Morrow Cannady Zach King Esperanza Spalding George Bruns Largest cities of the Pacific Northwest City State/Province Population Metropolitan Area Urban Area Seattle Washington 704,000 3,905,026 3,059,393 Portland Oregon 658,347 2,753,168 1,849,898 Vancouver British Columbia 631,486 2,737,698 2,264,823 Surrey British Columbia 598,530 Burnaby British Columbia 257,926 Boise Idaho 226,570 691,423 349,684 Spokane Washington 222,081 573,493 486,225 Richmond British Columbia 216,046 Tacoma Washington 198,397 Vancouver Washington 175,673 General images - The following are images from various Pacific Northwest-related articles on Wikipedia. A map of the Snake River Plain, showing its smooth topography (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) May 1915 Lassen Peak eruption column (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Mountain goat on Wallaby Peak in the North Cascades (from Cascade Range) Mount Edziza, a large shield volcano in northwestern British Columbia (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Mount Hood is the tallest point in the U.S. state of Oregon. (from Cascade Range) The Coast Mountains are heavily eroded by glaciers, including Mount Waddington (far background, center). (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Lumen Field, home of Seattle Seahawks and Sounders FC (from Pacific Northwest) Public transportation is used in the Pacific Northwest region. Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system achieves daily ridership of over 500,000 passengers per day on weekdays and the overall transit ridership levels in the Metro Vancouver area rank third in North America per capita. (from Pacific Northwest) The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (from Cascade Range) Oval-leaf blueberry on Mount Pilchuck (from Cascade Range) The Columbia River basalts cover portions of three states (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Magnetic anomalies around the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Ridges, off the west coast of North America, color coded by age. (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Image of the Juan de Fuca Plate that produced the magnitude 8.7–9.2 Cascadia earthquake in 1700. (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Pacific Northwest Trail at Blanchard Mountain in Washington (from Pacific Northwest Trail) None of the multiple possible definitions of the Pacific Northwest is universally accepted. This map shows three possibilities: (1) The shaded area shows the historical Oregon Country. (2) The green line shows the Cascadia bioregion. (3) The labeled states and provinces include Washington, Idaho, Oregon and British Columbia. (from Pacific Northwest) Map of "megacity", showing population density (shades of yellow/brown), highways (red), and major railways (black). Public land shown in shades of green. (from Pacific Northwest) The Coquihalla River in the Canadian Cascades (from Cascade Range) The Pacific Northwest from outer space. (from Pacific Northwest) Mount St. Helens erupts on May 18, 1980 (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Map of the Anahim Volcanic Belt centers. (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) The Pacific Northwest from space (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) HMS Discovery was the lead ship used by George Vancouver (from Pacific Northwest) Lassen Peak in the California Cascades. Southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range and part of Lassen Volcanic National Park (from Cascade Range) The Cascades range (from Pacific Northwest) The Boundary Trail section of the PNT in Horseshoe Basin, Pasayten Wilderness (from Pacific Northwest Trail) West side view of Mount Shuksan in summer as seen from Artist Point in Washington (from Cascade Range) The immense floods created channels that are presently dry, such as the Drumheller Channels (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) State Route 302 after the Nisqually earthquake (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Geology of the Cascade Range-related plate tectonics. (from Cascade Range) U.S. Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes' 1841 Map of the Oregon Territory from "Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition". Philadelphia: 1845 (from Pacific Northwest) Map of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt centers. (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) A man in Portland, Oregon with Cascadian flag on International Workers' Day, 2012 (from Pacific Northwest) The North Cascades are heavily eroded by glaciers (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) The Columbia Gorge marks where the Columbia River splits the Cascade Range between the states of Washington and Oregon. (from Cascade Range) The Golden Hinde on Vancouver Island was formed by erosion carving into basalt. (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail overview map (from Pacific Northwest Trail) Lava Butte, Oregon, erupted roughly 5000 years BCE (from Geology of the Pacific Northwest) Did you know - ... that when John Emmitt was traveling to the Oregon Territory in 1852 along the Oregon Trail, two of his three children died of cholera and were buried along the route? ... that Dan Lanning, who coached his final game at Georgia in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship, will face Georgia in his first game as the new head coach at Oregon? ... that the closest modern fern relatives to Dennstaedtia christophelii of the Pacific Northwest are tropical species from South America? ... that in the 1951 court case Kuzych v White, on appeal from the British Columbia Court of Appeal, five law lords of the British Judicial Committee ruled in favour of a Communist-led trade union? ... that women- and minority-owned businesses built the Frequent Express high-capacity bus line in Portland, Oregon? ... that James A. Merriman was the only Black graduate from Rush Medical College in 1902 and the first African-American physician to practice medicine in Portland? 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